National Archives and Records Administration The space race between the United States and the Soviet Union stepped up a gear ...

Explore the remarkable story of Buran, the Soviet Union’s secret space shuttle that stunned the world with its fully ...

Yuri Gagarin is celebrated as the first human in space - but history written during the Cold War may not tell the full story.

Ever heard of the supersonic Soviet jet with the nickname the 'Booze Carrier?' Well, let's just say it has a tipsy story, as ...

After 41 years since Rakesh Sharma's historic spaceflight, Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla is set to embark on the ...

Kennedy met with the CIA following a 1955 tour of the Soviet Union, relaying his observations to the spy agency as a ...

Shukla, who goes by the nickname 'Shux', will be the second Indian to travel to space, 41 years after his idol Rakesh Sharma ...

On August 15, 1969, India established Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) under the Department of Atomic Energy, which ...

On June 19, 1865, Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, with news that the Civil War was over and that all remaining enslaved people in Texas were free — an event now celebrated nationwide as ...

Astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla stands on the cusp of history as he prepares to set off on a space odyssey, marking India’s ...

The Soviet secret police were particularly brutal in Ukraine, given that it was a country with a long history of resistance ...